Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) was a Swiss Neoclassical painter. She showed talent for painting at an early age which her father, a muralist, greatly encouraged. Kauffman studied art in Italy and eventually moved to London where she became celebrated as a highly skilled portrait artist. She was one of only two women who had the honor of signing the founding document of the Royal Academy. During Kauffman’s lifetime, women were usually unable to become professional painters of the same respect as their male counterparts; Kauffman’s success as a woman was a rare and wonderful occurrence. When she passed away in 1807, her friend, the sculptor Antonio Canova, organized a beautiful funeral for her which was modeled after Raphael’s own Renaissance burial.
Paintings by Angelica Kauffman in Chronological Order:
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| Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1764 | Portrait of Augusta of Hanover with her first born son Karl Georg of Brunswick, 1767 | Portrait of Louisa Leveson Gower as Spes (Goddess of Hope), 1767 |
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| Portrait of Anne Loudon, Lady Henderson of Fordall, 1771 | Penelope is woken by Euryclea, 1772 | Hector Calls Paris to the Battle, 1775 |
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| Ideal portrait of Shakespeare, c.1775 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1775 | Portrait of a Woman as a Vestal Virgin, c.1775 |
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| Portrait of John Simpson, c.1777 | Beauty Directed by Prudence, 1780 | Beauty, supported by Prudence, Scorns the Offering of Folly, c.1780 |
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| Farewell of Abelard and Héloise, 1780 | The monk from Calais, 1780 | Portrait of a Young Woman, 1781 |
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| Portrait of artist’s husband, the painter Antonio Zucchi, 1781 | Self-portrait, 1781 | Allegory of poetry and music, 1782 |
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| Portrait of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, c.1782 | Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria, c.1782 | Scene with Miranda and Ferdinand, 1782 |
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| Ferdinand IV of Naples and his family, 1783 | Cornelia Africana, 1785 | Lady Elizabeth Foster, 1785 |
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| Portrait of Karl Leberecht, 1785 | Self-portrait, 1785 | Juliane von Kriidener and her son Paul, 1786 |
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| Portrait of a Woman as a Vestal Virgin, c.1787 | Self-portrait, 1787 | Countess Anna Protassowa with niece, 1788 |
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| Portrait of Countess A S Protasova with Her Nieces, 1788 | Valentine Rescues Silvia in ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’, 1789 | Venus convinces Helen to hear Paris, 1790 |
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| Self Portrait, the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1791 | Portrait of Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, 1794 | Count Nikolai Tolstoy with his wife Anna Ivanovna and their son Alexander, c.1795 |
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| Portrait Of A Woman, 1795 | Three singers, 1795 | Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, 1796 |
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| Augustin de Lespinasse, 1798 | A portrait of John Morgan | Alcestis |
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| Anna Maria Jenkins and Thomas Jenkins | Ariadne left on the island of Naxos | Children with a bird’s nest and flowers |
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| Family portrait of Catherine Petrovna Baryatinskiy | Four Children With A Basket Of Fruit | Garrick |
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| Insane Mary | Papirius Praetextatus Entreated by his Mother to Disclose the Secrets of the Deliberations of the Roman Senate | Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl |
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| Portrait of Herzogs von Ceri | Portrait of Louise Henrietta Campbell | Portrait of Mme Latouce |
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| Portrait Of Philip Tisdall With His Wife And Family | The Townshend Family | Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia |